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Alexander Soule

UnitedHealth grabs Health Net book

Jul-19-09, 07:00 PM

UnitedHealth Group is buying Health Net’s customer base in the Northeast.



GOP insiders consider run for governor

Nov-20-09, 11:31 AM

Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele gave notice he would run for governor.

Finding funding

Companies look to alternative sources of financing, credit

Mar-25-07, 07:00 PM

With commercial loan demand slackening, companies increasingly are saying “put it on plastic” at the vendor checkout line.

N.H.’s Presstek moves HQ to Fairfield County

Dec-23-07, 07:00 PM

Presstek Inc., which sells commercial digital printers, is shifting its corporate headquarters from Hudson, N.H., to Fairfield County.

Catterton nails hardware deal

Nov-18-07, 07:00 PM

Catterton Partners is buying out Restoration Hardware Inc., the home-goods retailer with a store in the private equity firm’s home base of Greenwich, as well as in Westport.



3 county companies make list of ‘most ethical’

GE’s Immelt, Xerox’s Mulcahy cited among 100 ‘most influential’

May-03-09, 07:00 PM

General Electric, Pitney Bowes and Xerox were lauded among the world’s most ethical companies.

Levco Tech countersues oil supplier

Feb-08-09, 07:00 PM

Less than two weeks after it was sued by an oil supplier for breach of contract, Norwalk-based Levco Tech Inc. has countersued, claiming the supplier failed to liquidate oil futures contracts it had bought on Levco’s behalf at prices between $2.82 and $4.34 a gallon, and failed to warn it of the scope of damages Levco could incur as prices fell below that range.

HDF vies for $2.8M housing assist

Oct-21-07, 07:00 PM

Housing Development Fund is a finalist for a $2.8 million grant for affordable-housing initiatives to be awarded in December.

Willet buys stake in Conn. retail center

Dec-16-07, 07:00 PM

For $92.5 million, Willett Cos. has purchased a 75 percent stake in Milford (Conn.) Crossing Shopping Center, along with Ireland-based Parker Green, which has an office in New York City.

ConnectiCare’s Herbert to retire

Jan-29-10, 03:29 PM

Mickey Herbert is retiring March 1 as CEO of ConnectiCare



Scramble for big helicopter contract features Sikorsky

May-10-09, 07:00 PM

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. reportedly will put its X2 prototype into the mix as an armed reconnaissance helicopter for the U.S. Army.

Retail sales drift sideways

The good news is there’s not bad news

Dec-09-07, 07:00 PM

The holiday shopping season got off to a mixed start on the so-called Black Friday after Thanksgiving, according to BIGresearch.

Premium red ink

Triple whammy hits insurers

Nov-09-08, 07:00 PM

For the first time in seven years, W.R. Berkley Corp. posted a quarterly loss as the insurance company’s results were buffeted the troika of storms, declining investments and soft prices.

Norwalk nonprofit enlists patient in cancer-drug test

Aug-26-07, 07:00 PM

A Norwalk nonprofit enrolled its first patient in a clinical trial of a drug candidate to treat multiple myeloma, a cancer that attacks bone marrow cells that produce antibodies to fight disease.

Connecticut sues New York reinsurer

Company cites ‘fundamental misunderstanding’

Oct-21-07, 07:00 PM

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has sued reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter & Company L.L.C., claiming the company pocketed more than $80 million in illicit profits by arranging inflated insurance prices as much as 40 percent above the industry average.

UST buys top Napa cellar

Fruit of these vines is hardly the stuff of stag parties

Aug-12-07, 07:00 PM

UST Inc. uncorked a $185 million acquisition of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, a famed vineyard in Napa Valley that is credited with putting California wines on the world map.

Carmel CPA accused of stealing $1.6M

Oct-26-08, 07:00 PM

A certified public accountant was charged with stealing $1.6 million from B. Schoenberg & Co. Inc., a recycler of plastics and resins based in Yorktown Heights.

For some pols, business backgrounds prove a plu

Jun-24-07, 07:00 PM

Asked how his previous experience best prepared him for his second career, and Greg Ball responds it was the time he was stranded alone in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains for a few days of survival training.

Sikorsky’s Marine One plans see life

Once dashed, contract back in play

Jan-27-08, 07:00 PM

US Government shockingly revives Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.'s contract

Over the hump?

Financial exposure still uncertain

Sep-14-08, 07:00 PM

Despite the federal bailout of two massive mortgage companies, a Citizens Bank economist predicted that Fairfield County’s financial sector is only “halfway through this mess” as banks continue to write off underperforming loans.